Zug Zug
Time is yet another part of our world that we have turned into orcish industry.
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| ... or ELSE! |
Once upon a time the seasons meant more than "party inside".... "maybe party outside." I can't discount that individual persons recognize the quality of the change of seasons, or "what kind of day it is." But hardly ever do we socially, collectively recognize it. I venture the claim: only when we are forced by hazard to we recognize it: extreme wind, severe drought, heavy snow/rain.
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| Abandoned Highway in Atlanta, GA . . . (2.6 inches of snow) |
I think this is a conditioning of culture. We don't have to be this way, but the mindset is still there for many. Playing the detective, I have my own suspect: Absolutist Quantification.
Time and Space
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| Not my image - save by Predestination Paradox |
In case the graph isn't quite as clear,"Absolutist Quantification" means, specifically, "if I can't count it in number, it's all whatever/personal/relative/subjective/you-own-damn-problem-and-don't-bother-'us'-with-it."
The issue I find, here, is the neglect of the other set of the properties of time. We are so accustomed to a quantifiable measurement and physically scientific understanding of time, we fail to remember that there are the qualitative aesthetics of time and its moral vectors.
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| ...ooew. Yeah, I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. |
My objection would seem very namely-pambsy...
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| A Namely-Pambsy Heptathalon |
... if we were robots. But we aren't. We are ensouled creatures with the faculty to value time, and its non-ordinal properties.
What does all this "quality of time" talk have to do with my attention shift from "I haven't posted in a while," to "time is just wibbly-wobbly?" Because the production of this entry is emergent. Time has elapsed, our bodies have aged in either maturity or molecular decay. But it is ridiculous to say, "time has elapsed, therefore more ideas have been born."
Think about pregnancy. When will the child emerge from the womb? Does a clock in the birth room determine that (if only, ladies?); or, does the time provide opportunity for the certain conditions to manifest (hormone levels, fetal development, physiological movement)?
I can't say "the quantity of time" has no value. That would be both foolish and errant. But I can say, "it's not the only quality we need to observe...." because, it isn't.
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